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...getting a half-hour "beat" on the story's climax- the discovery of Baby Lindbergh's body. Best Cartoon-to Harold Morton Talburt of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws...
Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
...going to extirpate Marxism!" shouted Captain Göring amid applause from the conservative Pomeranian Landbund. "I am going to keep my fist on the neck of these creatures until they are finished. We are not only going to extirpate the pest but we are going to tear the word Marxism out of every book. In 50 years nobody in Germany is going to know what the word means...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a fight against stubby, bowlegged Adolph Heuser of Germany, in which Rosenbloom jabbed, slapped and cuffed his game opponent for 15 rounds without closing his fist for a single honest punch; in Manhattan...
...strong enough. Kong breaks them in full view of a first night audience, pushes down the side of the theatre, wrecks an elevated train, climbs up the side of a hotel as though it were a ladder. When he finds Miss Wray he climbs, with her in his fist, up the outside of the Empire State Building. He sits down on the mooring mast, disgusted by his surroundings. A squad of airplanes finally shoot him down...